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The database is updated when new documents become available in English. See individual document for more information on translation status. Please note that the English versions of documents issued by the Finnish authorities and the Finnish Parliament are unofficial translations.
Regulatory Guides on radiation safety (ST Guides)
NB! One of the changes included in the comprehensive revision of radiation legislation is that the ST Guides will be recommendatory in nature.
- st guide ST 1.1 Safety in radiation practices, 23.5.2013
ST 1.1 PDF
- st guide ST 1.3 Warning signs for radiation sources, 9.12.2013
ST 1.3 PDF
- st guide ST 1.4 Radiation user’s organization, 2.11.2011
ST 1.4 PDF
- st guide ST 1.5 Exemption of radiation use from safety licensing, 12.9.2013
ST 1.5 PDF
- st guide ST 1.6 Operational radiation safety, 10.12.2009
ST 1.6 PDF
- st guide ST 1.7 Radiation protection training in health care, 10.12.2012
ST 1.7 PDF
- st guide ST 1.8 Qualifications and radiation protection training of persons working in a radiation user’s organization, 25.1.2016
ST 1.8 PDF
- st guide ST1.9 Radiation practices and radiation measurements, 23.11.2016
ST 1.9 PDF
- st guide ST 1.10 Design of rooms for radiation sources, 14.7.2011
ST 1.10 PDF
- st guide ST 1.11 Security arrangements of radiation sources, 21.3.2017
ST 1.11 PDF
- st guide ST 3.1 Dental X-ray examinations in health care, 13.6.2014
ST 3.1 PDF
- st guide ST 3.3 X-ray examinations in health care, 8.12.2014
ST 3.3 PDF
- st guide ST 3.8 Radiation safety in mammography examinations, 25.1.2013
ST 3.8 PDF
This guide replaces Guide ST 3.2, Mammography equipment and their use, issued on 13 August 2001 and ST 3.7, Breast cancer screening based on mammography, issued on 28 March 2001. In film-based systems the acceptability criteria and quality assurance methods presented in Guide ST 3.2 may still be applied.
- st guide ST 5.1 Radiation safety of sealed sources and equipment containing them, 13.9.2016
ST 5.1 PDF
- st guide ST 5.2 Use of control and analytical X-ray apparatus, 26.9.2008
ST 5.2 PDF
- st guide ST 5.3 Use of ionizing radiation in the teaching of physics and chemistry, 4.5.2007
ST 5.3 PDF
- st guide ST 5.4 Trade in radiation sources, 14 June 2016
ST 5.4 PDF
- st guide ST 5.6 Radiation safety in industrial radiography, 9.3.2012
ST 5.6 PDF
- st guide ST 5.7 Shipments of radioactive waste and spent fuel, 6.6.2011
ST 5.7 PDF
- st guide ST 5.8 Installation, repair and servicing of radiation appliances, 25.9.2015
ST 5.8 PDF
- st guide ST 6.1 Radiation safety when using unsealed sources, 2.3.2016
ST 6.1 PDF
- st guide ST 6.2 Radioactive waste and discharges from unsealed sources, 9.1.2017
ST 6.2 PDF
- st guide ST 6.3 Radiation safety in nuclear medicine, 14.1.2013
ST 6.3 PDF
- st guide ST 7.1 Monitoring of radiation exposure, 14.8.2014
ST 7.1 PDF
- st guide ST 7.2 Application of maximum values for radiation exposure and principles for the calculation of radiation doses, 8.8.2014
ST 7.2 PDF
- st guide ST 7.3 Calculation of the dose caused by internal radiation, 13.6.2014
ST 7.3 PDF
- st guide ST 7.4 The dose register and data reporting, 8.12.2014
ST 7.4 PDF
- st guide ST 7.5 Medical surveillance of occupationally exposed workers, 13.6.2014
ST 7.5 PDF
- st guide ST 9.1 Radiation safety requirements and regulatory control of tanning appliances, 1.7.2013
(not available)
- st guide ST 9.2 Radiation safety of pulsed radars, 2.9.2003
(not available)
- st guide ST 9.3 Radiation safety during work on masts at FM and TV stations, 2.9.2003
(not available)
- st guide ST 9.4 Radiation safety of laser displays and shows, 30.4.2015
ST 9.4 PDF